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J. O. MILLER.

HANGING LAMP. N0. 421,184. Patented Feb. 11,1890.

N. HITERS Photo-Lithographer. Washington, 0. c.

UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

JOHN C. MILLER, F MERIDEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO THE MERIDEN BRONZECOMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

HANGING LAMP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 421,184, dated February11, 1890.

Application filed March 25, 1889. fierial No. 304,635. (No model.)

'To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN C. MILLER, of Meriden, in the county of NewHaven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement inHanging Lamps; and I do here by declare the following, when taken in0011- nection with accompanying drawings and the letters of referencemarked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same,

" and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, andrepresent, in

Figure 1, a side View of a frame for a hanging lamp embodying theinvention; Fig. 2, a top View of the fount-seat ring detached.

I 5 Figs. 3 and 4 illustrate the formation of the seat-ring from asingle strip of metal; Figs. 5 and 6, the formation of the same ringfrom two strips of metal.

This invention relates to an improvement .20 in hanging lamps, andparticularly to that class in which the frame is provided with a seatinto which the lamp-fount may be removably set, the invention relatingspecially to the construction of the fount-seat portion of the frame,the object of the invention being a simple, cheap, but strongconstruction of the fount-seat portion of the frame, and one which maybe made highly ornamental and the invention consists in the construc- 0tion as hereinafter described, and particularly recited in the claims.

A A represent the two sides of the frame, which terminate at the upperend in convenient means for suspending the frame from 5 the ceiling. Brepresents the ring at the bottom of the frame, within which the lampfount is to rest. The lower ends of the two sides A A of the frameterminate in the form of vertical bolts 0, which are adapted to ex- 0tend through the fount-seat portion of the frame, and provided with anut D upon the lower end, so that when the frame is set over the boltends of the sides and the nut applied the seat-ring is securely held inplace and 5 forms the connection between the two sides. This seat isbest made in a single piece or strip of metal, the outer surface ofwhich may be ornamented to any desirable extent. It is of a lengthcorresponding to the circumfer- 5o ence of the fount at it-sbearingpoint, plus twice the length required for the projecting ears EE, through which the lower ends of the sides of the frame pass. At eachend of the strip a semicircular cavity a is made transversely across thestrip, and midway of the length of the strip a cavity 1) is formedtransversely across the strip, which in extentis equal to the fullcircumference required for that portion of the car through which theends of the sides of the frame extend. Then a portion of the stripbetween these recesses a Z) is bent into semicircular shape, startingfrom a point distant from the said recesses corresponding to theprojection which is re quired for the ears E, these points beingindicated at d in Fig. 3. The strip thus bent is represented in Fig. 4:,F F representing the two semicircular bends. These semicircular bendscorrespond in diameter to the diameter required for the fount-seat. Nowthe strip is doubled upon itself to bring the two semicircular seatportions together, as seen in Fig. 2. This doubles the central portionof the strip upon itself to form one ear, the transverse recess 12producinga circular open ing 6 through that, car, and the twosemicircular transverse recesses a produce a like vertical opening fupon the opposite side. The lapping parts to form the ears are thenriveted together or otherwise secured, so as to complete the ring. Theopenings e f correspond to the termination of the two sides A A of theframe, and so as to be set thereon, and the nutD applied firmly securesthem to the frame and unites the two ends of the frame. The sides of theframe are preferably provided with a collar or shoulder Gr above theseat-ring, against which the upper sur face of the seatring will bear,as seen in Fig. 1. Instead of making the seat-ring from a single stripof metal, as described, it may be made from two strips, as seen in Fig.5, each of half the length of the single strip before described, andeach end of these strips formed with a like concave recess and so thatthe two set together, as seen in Fi 6, will produce substantially thesame ring as that before described with the ears united, and so that thetransverse recesses in the ends form the same vertical openings 0 fl Thestrip of metalfrom which this ring is made may be rolled and ofirregular shape, so as to give great strength to the ring, thuspermitting the ring to be made from thin metal.

In Fig. 1 the sides of the frame are represented as made from wire; butwhile this particular construction of ring is specially adapted to awire frame, it will be understood that it may be applied to frames ofother material, it only being essential that the end of the frame shallbe provided with means for securing the ring through the said verticalopenings 6 f.

I claim- 1. The herein-described improvement in hanging lamps,consisting in the fount-scat ring constructed from metal bent to formtwo semicircles corresponding in diameter to the diameter of the fountto be seated thereon, the ends of the said semicircles turned radiallyoutward and secured together, the said turned-out portions of each partconstructed with corresponding vertical semicircular bends, together.forming openings 6 f outside the complete ring, and which verticalopenings are adapted for attaching the ring to the sides of the frame,substantially as described.

2. lheherein-described fount-seatring for hanging lamps, made from asingle strip of metal bent to form two semicircles F F, corresponding indiameter to the diameter of the fount to be seated thereon, also With atransverse bend a a at each end of the strip, an d a transverse bend 1)between the adjacent ends of the said semicircles F F, the said stripdoubled from the said central transverse recess Z), bringing the saidsemicircles F F together to form a ring corresponding to the fount to beseated thereon, the said transverse recess Z) forming a tubular openingat one side of the ring, and the two transverse recesses a a broughttogether to form a like tubular opening upon the opposite side of thering, substantially as described.

JOHN C. MILLER. Vitnesses:

WILLIs I. FENN, WM. BALZER.

